Grow Fresh Vegetables Year Round Without A Garden Did you know that you can have a source of fresh vegetables that are available all year long without the need of a grocery store or garden? Read on to find out more… For those of you that may one day have to live exclusively off of your food storage, have you ever wondered what to do about the lack of fresh vegetables? Well if you’ve taken my advice and stored a year’s supply of grains and legumes, you already have an excellent source of fresh vegetables all year long – in your sprouted seeds! Seeds are nature’s miracles. The process of sprouting takes a carbohydrate rich food source and turns it into a “live” food rich in vitamins, minerals, proteins and beneficial enzymes and on top of that is healthier than commercially grown vegetables! Here’s the process: How to Grow Sprouts CAUTION: Be aware that potato and tomato sprouts are poisonous. Referencing the sprouting chart below, measure out the required amount of seed. Sprouting Chart
Growing potatoes in straw Forget about what you think you know about growing potatoes... Are you ready for something new? We are...so we decided to plant our potatoes in straw this year. So simple a child can do it (and she did). All you need to grow potatoes in straw is a place to spread out soggy newspaper. Soak the newspaper in water first and put down thick layers of it wherever you want to plant your potatoes. Add your potatoes. Cover the pototoes with straw. Wait for them to grow. Ooops! I do have some potatoes bulging from the chicken feed bags that you can see here (I know, not quite the same, but it's the best I can do for now You can read about the feed bag (and other container) techniques here: Growing Container Potatoes Other gardening topics: City Gardening Find your Climate Zone Equipment for Starting Seeds Growing Upside Down Tomatoes Layout for Vegetable Gardens Preparing Your Soil Salad Tower Garden Starting a Vegetable Garden Starting Vegetable Seeds Indoors Starting Seeds with Peat Pellets Staw Bale Garden
17 Apart: Growing Celery Indoors: Never Buy Celery Again Remember when we tested and shared how to grow onions indefinitely last week? Well, at the same time, we've been testing out another little indoor gardening project first gleaned from Pinterest that we're excited to share the successes of today — regrowing celery from it's base. We've figured out how to literally re-grow organic celery from the base of the bunch we bought from the store a couple weeks ago. I swear, we must have been living under a rock all these years or just not be that resourceful when it comes to food, but we're having more fun learning all these new little tips and tricks as we dive deeper into trying to grow more of our own food. This project is almost as simple as the onion growing project — simply chop the celery stalks from the base of the celery you bought from the store and use as you normally would. We let our celery base hang out in the saucer of water for right around one week, give or take. Update 2: Here's how we are looking at almost 3-4 weeks of growth:
Taking Space to Grow Food and Community: Urban Agriculture and Guerrilla Gardening in Vancouver | Érudit | Cuizine v4 n1 2013 | When I moved back to my hometown of Vancouver in April 2006, I decided I wanted to live on the West Side. This area appealed to me in part because of its many green spaces, including community gardens. I really hoped that I could find a place where I could grow some of my own food. Once I began to explore the possibilities, I realized that there was little hope of getting a plot in one of the nearby community gardens: the waiting lists were incredibly long. It seemed like everyone in Vancouver wanted to garden. One day, while I was walking along the train tracks a block away from my new home, I came across a man digging in a “vacant” plot of land between an industrial building, some disused railroad tracks, and the street. My foray into urban agriculture in Vancouver was the beginning of a new, unintended, research project. When I first began digging at West Sixth Avenue and Pine Street, I did not really think that the process of creating an urban garden would be quite so harmonious.
The 16 Best Healthy, Edible Plants to Grow Indoors From farmers’ markets and Community Supported Agriculture, to urban farms and rooftop gardens, to produce delivery services, more and more people across the U.S. are embracing farm-fresh food. And for good reason: Locally grown produce tends to be better for the environment and for local communities than its store-bought counterparts. Growing food at home also ensures that growers know exactly where their food comes from and how it was grown (no need to worry about deceptive food labeling). If you’re not whipping out the pruning shears yet, consider this: Learning new skills is good for our brains. Luckily, you don’t need to be a farmer (or even live near a farm) in order to reap the benefits of home-grown produce. If you have a sunny window (or two, or five) and a bit of extra time on your hands, then you’re capable of growing your own food right at home. General Growing Tips Fruits and Veggies Photo: Alpha 1. 2. 3. 4. How to Harvest: Most lemons will ripen in six to nine months. 5. 6. 7.
Fiche technique : la tour de pommes de terre Il existe une méthode qui permet de cultiver des pommes de terre hors sol. Vous pouvez ainsi les faire pousser sur un balcon, dans un petit jardin, ou bien encore sous une serre. Cette technique est bien connue des anglais, qui sont littéralement accro de jardinage "en pot". Le principe est tout simple et consiste à butter les plants pommes de terre tout au long de leur croissance. Commencez par vous procurer une terre acide (Ph 5,5 - 6) et veillez à garder la terre humide tout au long de la culture, c'est-à-dire entre 3 et 5 mois selon les variétés de pomme de terre. Les pommes de terre vont donc pousser dans un «pot» ayant un peu la forme d'une «tour». Si vous utilisez une jarre ou autre bac rigide, veillez à bien le mettre à la lumière afin que le germe soit stimulé et puisse grandir. Choisissez votre variété de pomme de terre et surtout prenez des variétés bio (les non bio sont souvent traité anti germination). Laisser ensuite fleurir et se développer la plante hors de la «tour».
The heifer rearing system | RuralNI The RuralNI website is no longer a website in its own right. It has become part of the DARD website. We have moved most of the content from RuralNI across to the new DARD website and you should be able to find what you are looking for by clicking on the link below: www.dardni.gov.uk For access to DARD Online Services go to the new DARD website and click on the green Online Services link at the top of the page. Services like APHIS Online and Online Maps are unaffected by this change. Most of the content of RuralNI has been moved to the “Farming & Countryside” section which you can access by clicking on the link in the Explore DARD section on the right hand side of the DARD homepage.
Urban Agriculture - theurbanfarmer.ca It has only been in recent decades (since the post World War II era), and particualrly in most North American cities, that the division between urban and rural has been more sharply defined and upheld. Urban planning and regulatory practises of the last half century in North America have attempted to sever the natural ties between cities and food production, urban and rural, metropolis and farm. This tendency has grown out of a particular cultural bias viewing cities as “progress” and farming as “backward” and a misguided notion of public health viewing food production and the raising of animals as potentially dangerous, dirty, and infectious. Land use patterns, real estate speculation, and the emergence of the “global food system” have also contributed to the marginalization of urban agriculture in the past sixty years. But this is changing once again as a global renaissance of urban agriculture is well underway. Agricultural Urbanism, Vancouver International Development Research Centre
Top 15 Open Source / libre Sécurité / Hacking Tools | Sécurité et Hacking Blog 1. Nmap Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap homepage. 2. Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer. 3. Metasploit Community Edition simplifies network discovery and vulnerability verification for specific exploits, increasing the effectiveness of vulnerability scanners. 4. Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6400 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdated versions of over 1200 servers, and version specific problems on over 270 servers. 5. 6. ettercap 7. 8. 9. 10. w3af 11. hping 12. burpsuite 13.
Video: DIY Rainwater Collection System Here’s a great video from MrNativeTexan that will show you how put together a simple-to-construct rainwater collection system for your garden! There are a couple of neat ideas going on here – connecting the barrels with a manifold not only makes them fill at the same rate, but there’s also only one tap needed. Four barrels leads to an increased pressure at the tap and the barrels drain from below so they can be fully emptied. Water is synonymous with life, it’s a precious resource and we need to reduce our demand wherever possible to save trouble for future generations. If we don’t act with this in mind it’s easy to see that people could be fighting over clean water in years to come. A project like this is one easy step in the right direction! Collecting your rainwater is one way to avoid having to use mains drinking water for watering your plants – in fact it’s better for them without the added chlorine, which is toxic. Please Share This Page:
Climate Viewer News - Mapping Climate Change, Pollution, and Privacy rainwater harvesting printable version of this factsheet (pdf) the simplest way to collect rainwater is in a water butt, with a diverter in the downpipe table 1: above are the average annual rainfall figures for the last 30 years; use these figures in conjunction with table 2 below to find the volume of water you can expect to collect source: Met Office table 2: expected volumes of water collected in cubic metres can be found by checking your average rainfall (see table 1 above) against your roof area source: Environment Agency rainsava: can be insterted into your downpipe (round or square) to divert rainwater into a water butt; available online or from garden centres
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Soil An important factor influencing the productivity of our planet's various ecosystems is the nature of their soils. Soils are vital for the existence of many forms of life that have evolved on our planet. For example, soils provide vascular plants with a medium for growth and supply these organisms with most of their nutritional requirements. Figure 1: Most soils contain four basic components: mineral particles, water, air, and organic matter. Soil itself is very complex. Organic Activity A mass of mineral particles alone do not constitute a true soil. Humus is the biochemical substance that makes the upper layers of the soil become dark. It enhances a soil's ability to hold and store moisture. Organic activity is usually profuse in the near surface layers of a soil. Translocation When water moves downward into the soil, it causes both mechanical and chemical translocations of material. Soil Texture Clay is probably the most important type of mineral particle found in a soil. Soil pH